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The wide dissemination of this "fake news" story about Bachmann got a fair amount of media attention and left several bloggers with egg on their faces, but what's worse is this: The fake story overwhelmed attention to much more awful words Michele Bachmann actually spoke.

It is an attempt to have government coerce enforced speech and behavior. Let me say that again: this is an effort to have government coerce – force – speech and behavior and it’s being pushed and advocated by the gay community. This is their ultimate goal, is to not allow for diversity of opinion on this issue, because they don’t want to be celebrated, they want to force everyone to not only agree with them but also have to finance their agenda. And they also believe that they have a right to determine, David, on a near daily basis, what their agenda is. Today the big push is on transgender and so they’re continuing to push this down the road.

I believe that we’re going to see coming an effort for multiples in marriage, not just two, but multiples in marriage. I think they want to legalize that. I think also they want to abolish age of consent laws, which means, children, uh children, would, we would do away with statutory rape laws, so that adults would be able to freely prey on little children sexually. That’s the deviance that we’re seeing embraced in our culture today.

But this sordid quote suggests that Bachmann has every intention of riding the anti-gay bias of fundamentalist Christians to a post-Congressional career as Anita Bryant 2.0.

In addition to being bizarrely offensive and completely out of touch with the American public, whose rapid embrace of same-sex marriage has stunned even longtime LGBT rights activists, the timing and the venue for Bachmann's hate-speech could not have been more cringe-worthy.

"Congresswoman Bachmann, this is the police. The calls are coming from inside the house!"

To be clear, no one is saying that ALL Christian radio hosts on Christian radio programs affiliated with Midwestern Christian colleges are child porn aficionados and pedophiles. Because that would be wrong. And potentially libelous. And a desperate ploy for attention. One is sure that the vast majority of Christian radio hosts on Christian radio programs affiliated with Midwestern Christian colleges are decent, law-abiding American citizens who just want to have jobs without fear of discrimination, marry the person they love, and build strong families. One is simply noting the coincidence.

Still, another reason to despise the proliferation of news-parody websites, above and beyond their click-bait headlines and undetectable satirical intent, is their ability to distract the public from what a truly awful human being like Michele Bachmann actually says and does.

President Obama, on his trip to Africa and responding to GOP fit about the historic nuclear deal with Iran, brilliantly namechecked Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump and threw a bunch of lit firecrackers in the midst of the already chaotic GOP primary field.

After facing strong pushback from Black Lives Matter protesters, Bernie Sanders' - and to be more precise, his supporters - progressive ego took some bruising. So they coalesced around this article on Alternet - 20 Examples of Bernie Sanders' Powerful Record on Civil and Human Rights. Problem is, the piece actually consists of 20 tone deaf reiterations of talking points that exemplify a lack of listening and attention to race issues. But hey, Bernie marched and he has black friends. So.

New unemployment claims are at a 42-year low, according to new data released from the Labor department. And that doesn't even take into account the substantial growth of the labor force in that time. Obama recovery roars again, this time even closer to full employment from economic disaster in less than seven years.

#AllLivesMatter. Yes, they do. But that's not the point. The reason that #BlackLivesMatter is a movement is because African Americans still struggle to secure the right to be fully equal in this country. And the present situation has a long, dark gestation.

We've all been entertained by Donald Trump's buffoonery, heralding it as the demise of the GOP. But the air he's sucking out of campaign coverage allows a field as horrific as he is to escape scrutiny. The Donald is awful; but he has no chance of winning the nomination. (At which point he could go rogue and run as an independent.) The ones who do have a chance are no different than Trump save in tone.

By now, nearly everyone has heard about Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Mally being stomped at Netroots Nation by Black Lives Matters protesters. But the incident represents a bigger problem: the devastating failure in the establishment of the self-proclaimed of the progressive movement on race. By allowing their economic displeasure to suck up air from social justice, the liberal establishment is making a grave error. But the error is unforced. The candidates, and the movement, has had stellar examples of leadership on social justice in President Obama and his administration, but chosen to blindly ignore it.

Yesterday, I detailed Bernie Sanders' problem with ethnic minorities and the psyche behind what is driving is appeal to white liberals in white liberal cities but keeping minorities on the sidelines. But it gets worse. Sanders' record on guns and his key support for racist vigilante border militia group known as the Minutemen gives us a broader window into the Senator's callous ignorance of race issues at best and his willing disregard of people of color at worst.